[1] Meteorologist Georgiy Klimenko and his Yakut guide Nikola are investigating a strange wind anomaly in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia, when they are caught prisoner by a megalomaniac villain Bayley.

With a gigantic air-sucking device, built by Swedish scientist Engelbrecht, Bayley is slowly stealing the Earth's atmosphere.

Bayley plans to create oxygen deficit and then to start selling fresh air, thus eventually becoming the master of the world.

Realising the danger Bayley's plans impose to the Earth, Nora commits suicide by exposing herself to the frozen oxygen.

The base is finally stormed by the Red Army, shown a safe passage in by the escaped Nikola.